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Music Industry Must Work With AI Companies Rather Than Fight Them in Court: Charles Goldstuck

AI music is forcing a “high-stakes inflexion point” and presenting the greatest disruption to the legal underpinnings of the music industry’s economic model since Napster — but a revenue-halving overhaul and protracted, unpopular legal battles can be avoided if major music companies get out ahead of judges and lawmakers and negotiate with Suno, Udio and Anthropic, says industry veteran and investor Charles Goldstuck.

Source: Music Industry Must Work With AI Companies Rather Than Fight Them in Court: Charles Goldstuck

Reese Witherspoon Says Women Need to Be Involved in AI: It’s the ‘Future of Filmmaking’

Speaking to Glamour magazine to promote the upcoming fourth season of her Apple TV+ series “The Morning Show,” the Oscar winner said she has made it a priority in her career as a producer to always be “looking forward to how media is evolving and how I can help be part of bringing women along in those emerging industries. And now we’re doing it with AI.”

Source: Reese Witherspoon Says Women Need to Be ‘Involved in AI’ Because It’s the ‘Future of Filmmaking’: ‘You Can Lament It All You Want, but the Change Is Here’

Nordic collecting societies shutter Polaris licensing hub over changing market demands

The organizations cited the need for bigger scale and international reach amid today’s “increasingly competitive, complex and scale-driven music ecosystem.” Koda, Teosto and Tono said: “[C]ooperation on a Nordic scale is no longer sufficient. The Board of Polaris Hub has accordingly decided to initiate a phased wind down of the venture in an orderly manner around the turn of 2025–2026.”

Source: Nordic collecting societies shutter Polaris licensing hub over changing market demands

Vinyl & CDs Remain Exempt from Tariffs — Merch Subject to Duties

Vinyl, CDs, and cassettes remain exempt from U.S. tariffs, but the likes of Bandcamp are addressing impacts on shipping, merch, and more. Notwithstanding the exception for vinyl and CDs, Discogs has warned that “customs and postal carriers may experience delays or mistakes as they adjust to the new requirements.” (Other national carriers are said to have paused U.S. deliveries altogether.)

Source: Vinyl & CDs Remain Exempt from Tariffs — Merch Subject to Duties

Trusted news sites may benefit in an internet full of AI-generated fakes, a new study finds

Fake books. Made-up sources. Bogus trampoline bunnies. We’re all getting a lot of AI-generated content in our feeds these days. But a new working paper suggests there’s a silver lining for trusted news organizations: they may be able to benefit from the broader degradation of the information ecosystem and win over subscribers concerned about sifting through the slop on their own.

Source: Trusted news sites may benefit in an internet full of AI-generated fakes, a new study finds

Survey suggests readers still click on links after reading Google AI Overview

More than eight in ten people have claimed they still click on a website link after reading an AI Overview in Google search results. Some 13.3% of people claimed to do so every time, 30.5% said they often do, 41.5% said they sometimes do and 10.3% said they rarely click through. The findings came in a survey of 1,000 US adults carried out via Pollfish for digital marketing agency NP Digital.

Source: Survey suggests readers still click on links after reading Google AI Overview

New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon Over Movie ‘Purchase’ Licenses

A On Friday, a proposed class action was filed in Washington federal court against Amazon over a “bait and switch” in which the company allegedly misleads consumers into believing they’ve purchased content when they’re only getting a license to watch, which can be revoked at any time.

Source: You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon

The new Hollywood: Runway’s AI models edge closer to simulating reality

When Runway ML started in 2018, the company’s founders envisioned using AI to aid in the creation of art. The company’s AI models were among the first to generate synthetic video for movies like Everything Everywhere All at Once. But as Runway’s models have improved, they’ve begun to do something unexpected: model the laws of physics simply by observing two-dimensional video.

Source: The new Hollywood: Runway’s AI models edge closer to simulating reality

The EU Is Trying to Build Guardrails on AI. Experts Say It Hasn’t Gone Far Enough

The “tsunami” of AI use cases and the risks for creators and copyright protections that it brings with it were in the spotlight at the CineLink industry section of the 31st edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival on Thursday. “Everybody’s using AI, and I’m wondering how much this AI super brain is giving directions on creativity.”

Source: The European Union Is Trying to Build Guardrails on AI. Experts Say It Hasn’t Gone Far Enough

More UK news publishers are adopting ‘consent or pay’ advertising model

Sixteen of the 50 biggest news websites in the UK are now using a “consent or pay” model to allow users to pay to reject personalised advertising or even avoid ads altogether. UK publishers began to implement the model last year as the Information Commissioner’s Office cracked down on the requirement for the biggest sites to display a “reject all cookies” button as prominently as the option to “accept all”.

Source: More UK news publishers are adopting ‘consent or pay’ advertising model

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